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on May 1990Ken Howe has been named manager of marine repair at Jeffboat, a subsidiary of American Commercial Marine Service Company in Jeffersonville, Ind. In his new position, Mr. Howe will be responsible for the management of marine repair as well as Jeffboat's machine shop. He began his career with
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on May 1990The U.S. Navy has awarded Litton's Ingalls Shipbuilding division a $12.2-million contract to continue engineering and planning support for the Navy's Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class Aegis guided missile destroyer program. Ingalls currently has construction contracts for six of the ships. The sup
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on May 1990The Deutz MWM division of the KHD group is providing propulsion units for a Hanse cog which is being rebuilt in Bremerhaven. The vessel, which was found in the sludge of the Weser River in 1962, dates back to the 14th century. It is being rebuilt by the Hanse-Koggewerft e.V., Bremerhaven, acco
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on May 1990A free brochure from Task Force Boats Ltd. details its full line of Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boats from 5.7 to 9.5 meters (18.7 to 31.1 feet) for the commercial, military, rescue, patrol and recreational markets. The new HF "Typhoon" range utilizes a unique patented and quickly interchangeabl
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on May 1990Bender Incorporated of Paoli, Penn., makes a series of insulation monitors, residual current devices and ground fault location systems that can predict the presence of a ground fault without system shutdown. Insulation monitors operate on ungrounded, AC 1PH/3PH systems, pure DC systems and A
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on May 1990Eastern Shipyards, Inc., Panama City, Fla., recently delivered two enlarged and completely refurbished offshore vessels to Ensco Marine, Broussard, La. The former 156-foot supply vessels Gulf Stream I and Gulf Stream II, were acquired by Eastern Shipyards and contracted to Ensco Marine on a
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on May 1990Furmanite, an international maintenance service company with corporate headquarters and technical technical center in Virginia Beach, Va., is offering a free brochure describing machines and services available from the company. The publication asserts that Furmanite's series of machine tool
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on May 1990Installation of a Protective Sealing System aboard the jumboized oiler USNS Mispillion was recently completed in San Francisco, Calif., by L&C Associates, Inc. of North Hampton, N.H. The Mispillion, assigned National Defense Reserve status, must conform to a rigorous reactivation schedule w
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on May 1990Wilson & Hayes Inc., a manufacturer of shipboard furniture, has passed 55 years of business. The company manufactures furniture to any specification—Navy, Coast Guard, Maritime Administration, NOAA—as well as for commercial marine projects, offshore oil drilling, the fishing industry, and fe
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on May 1990The U.S. Army has awarded Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Miss., a $10-million contract to build the fifth of a new class of 274- foot Logistics Support Vessels (LSV). The new ship will actually be built by a sister company in the Trinity Marine Group, Halter Marine at Moss Point, Miss.
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on May 1990Propulsion Controls Engineering (PCE), San Diego, Calif., has received a contract for the installation of new pneumatic systems on 18 of the U.S. Navy's LST Class ships. PCE president John P. Reilly said the new contract calls for removal of the original equipment and installation of new sys
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on May 1990Wartsila Marine Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, together with Wartsila Diesel Inc. recently completed a design and construction supervision contract for a 40-MW floating power plant. In order to meet the very short design and procurement time, the program was broken into two phases: Phase I—Barge C
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on May 1990The Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, located in Glen Cove, N.Y., has received an endowment for the establishment of a professorship to be named the "Mandell and Lester Rosenblatt Professor of Marine Engineering." Lester Rosenblatt, chairman and chief executive officer of M. Rosenblatt and
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on May 1990Robert A. Guthans, president and chief executive officer of Mobile, Alabama-based Midstream Fuel Services, Inc., and its two subsidiary companies, Tenn-Tom Towing Company, and Petroleum Energy Products Company, was elected chairman of the board of the American Waterways Operators (AWO)—the nat
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on May 1990U.S. oil producer Conoco Inc., Houston, Texas, recently ordered two double-hulled 95,000-ton tankers from South Korean Samsung Shipbuilding & Engineering for operation in the Gulf of Mexico. The double-hull tanker contract represents a break by Conoco from other U.S. oil firms, which have r
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on May 1990MagneTek, Inc., a leading manufacturer of electrical equipment, recently announced that MagneTek ALS received an order from Peterson Builders Inc. (PBI) for equipment exceeding $2.8 million. MagneTek ALS will provide the shipbuilding company with nine SCR motor drives and six solid state pu
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on December 1989Rear Adm. Oscar Hughes, project leader with overall responsibility for the Royal Australian Navy's new submarine project, recently visited Sweden's Hedemora Diesel AB to test-start a prototype engine that is one of a series of engines intended for six submarines. The order, which includes a to
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on December 1989Autronica has received the order for GL-90 radar-based level gaging systems for the 56,000 m^ LPG/ NH3/VCM carriers ordered at the Kvaerner Govan yard in Glasgow. The system will measure the level in eight cargo tanks and is connected to an Autronica alarm and control system covering the car
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on December 1989The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Caterpillar a $5.7-million contract to repower 43 cutters with Cat 3412 marine engines and Twin Disc 518-M marine gears. Each 83- foot patrol boat uses two of the Cat engines, each rated at 750 hp. The contract also calls for one additional engine with gear t
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on December 1989Avondale Industries, Inc. has been awarded a $23-million contract to enlarge an auxiliary oiler of the AO-177 Class. The award is the result of the Navy exercising an option in the contract Avondale received on July 15, 1988 which provided for jumboizing two oilers with options for two addi